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Authors
Braga, Natalia A.
de Oliveira Garcia Mateos, Sheila
Buccheri, Renata
Avelino-Silva, Vivian I.
Warden, Donald E.
de Almeida-Neto, Cesar
Ribeiro, Maisa
Amorim, Luiz
Loureiro, Paula
Fraiji, Nelson
Oikawa, Marcio K.
Grebe, Eduard
Stone, Mars
Sabino, Ester C.
Custer, Brian
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Article History
Received: 28 September 2024
Accepted: 16 December 2024
First Online: 7 January 2025
Declarations
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: The ethics committees at each blood center and the Brazilian National Ethics Research Committee reviewed and approved the study, including exemption of informed consent and authorization for further testing of repository samples for all donors included in the analysis (CAAE: 14561118.6.1001.0068). The institutional review board (IRB) at University of California San Francisco, which serves as Vitalant Research Institute’s IRB of record, approved this study (approval number 20–32768) as non-human subjects research with exemption of additional informed consent. Samples were coded and pseudonymized before shipment to testing facilities. The study investigators had no access to the keys that linked pseudonymized observations to identifying blood center data; therefore, all identifiable information of the blood donors included in the study were kept confidential.
: The authors confirm that all participants consented to blood safety screening at the time of donation, allowing publication of their data in the article.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
